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But for how long if they don't make the playoffs? That team is still in the honeymoon phase.

most of the argument seems to be though "I don't like Hall because last year sucked so therefore he's a useless qb and I will actively look for reasons to support that belief"

Marve was so impressive they gave him **** all for playing time in the pre-season. Look I get it, he was good that one drive in the home pre-season game, but he was very obviously behind the other guys on the depth chart and that didn't appear to change at all. He was most likely looking at a PR spot to start the year anyway so if they're bringing in a new qb the most logical place to look at who he is going to replace is the guy sitting #4 on the depth chart.

this contest discriminates against out of town fans. I should take this to the human rights commission.

good thing we got a new thread about this rather than carrying on in the two other threads that were talking about him

FTFY

we have dvds with all the games that were broadcast on, it's shitty quality but it is a hell of a lot of fun to go back and watch those games. That season was just something real special, damned shame they didn't finish it off right with a Grey Cup win.

bullshit. Jets fans are some of the biggest homers I've ever seen. LOL, you just hate all things WInnipeg, Go check out hfboards and look at the leafs oilers canucks flames fans trade proposals then get back to me. yeah I read that board all the time, Jets fans can and do out homer anyone there.

Good if you like a nice pale beer. Lots of choices to choose from in that category, which is why it's puzzling that there weren't more choices there. it's because stouts and super hoppy IPAs are all the rage amongst beer snobs. It's kind of sickening. I don't mind a good stout now and then but I don't care for overly hopped beers. Give me something amber or a red and I'm totally happy bit of hops but not too much. Hell I enjoy a nice blonde lager too time to time as long as it's got a good flavour to it, but hops are a crutch these days it seems.

Name Year Team No. Yards Avg Long TD KELLY, A 2011 HAM 27 383 14.2 34 2 KELLY, A 2012 HAM 11 107 9.7 30 1 KELLY, A 2013 WPG 22 321 14.6 45 0 Career Total 60 811 13.5 45 3 those numbers don't seem to indicate to me that he makes a lot of catches or scores a lot of TDs.. Really is a receiver who has a career best year of under 400 yards and 2 TDs the best we can do? .

So you think they're going to sell 11 000 walk up tickets? Laughable. who ever said anything even close to that? I said ticket sales for the Bombers are always lower a week before the game. In Winnipeg most of the non season ticket holders buy their tickets last minute. No one expects a sell out on this team, they need to rebuild a lot of the casual fans trust, but they'll get into the 25000+ range I have no doubts, especially if it's a nice evening. I'd hope they'd be much closer to 30k than 25k for the season opener. After all the **** this team put them through last year? Gonna take a while to build up some goodwill. The games were so bad last year that even the diehard fans were having trouble sticking it out until the end, how do you think the casual fans reacted to that? They'll take a wait and see approach and the first couple games are likely to be low attendance. If they show some back bone and maybe even win some games early in the year fans will come back, but they gotta earn the support back at this point.

bullshit. Jets fans are some of the biggest homers I've ever seen.

So you think they're going to sell 11 000 walk up tickets? Laughable. who ever said anything even close to that? I said ticket sales for the Bombers are always lower a week before the game. In Winnipeg most of the non season ticket holders buy their tickets last minute. No one expects a sell out on this team, they need to rebuild a lot of the casual fans trust, but they'll get into the 25000+ range I have no doubts, especially if it's a nice evening.

Kerwin Bell had a pretty good season for the argos before we got him.... The problem with Bell isn't that he was a terrible qb it's that Khari Jones blew the doors off as his backup and people preferred Jones so much that Bell started to get taken down in order to elevate Jones (completely unnecessary but that's the Bomber way)

Winnipeg has always been a walk up crowd to fill the building, why are we surprised by the number of tickets sold now? In typical Winnipeg fashion people just need something to ***** about.

Some people are saying that is a failure on recruiting…what if it's success by Kelly? The Bombers last successful days, Jamie Stoddard was a mainstay at 5th WR. A sticky hands guy without much flash that just caught whatever was thrown to him as a 5th receiver. Why not Kelly? Queue the Stoddard love You called?

Eskimo is a derogatory word from the language actually. I'm too lazy to find the exact story but I'm sure you can look it up if you're that interested.

Kelly wishes he was as explosive a player as Chris Brazzell. I'll grant that Kelly has much better hands than Brazzell but Brazzell was much more of a threat to do something in a game.

Seems to me that Fords best asset as a runner was his speed.... He wasn't terribly elusive but if he got a hole he had the speed to hit it and run a long way. In that video ford was caught from behind by a db I think at the goal line. Maybe the db is fast.. But would think ford should be faster? I drank during games to lessen the pain. so one example where a fast defender (and yes Cox is fast himself) vs. 3 or 4 highlights in that video where he runs away from everyone and you draw the conclusion that he's not a fast back? Are you serious? You're ******* with me right?

same way he'd use the other MLBs.

and in those 8 games he's played he was fine, yeah mostly on special teams sure but that's where your backups are supposed to shine right? The guys problem is that he breaks all the damned time not that he's got no skill.

The Bombers biggest issue is that they lost one of their top guys at a position that it's not usual to have a NI in. If you can insert Muamba back into the middle of the defense it looks a lot different. Losing 2 of your last 3 top picks to the NFL when you're trying to rebuild your depth isn't helpful, especially when in the last couple years you've lost your best NI to retirement and your next best to free agency.

Stephan was never a bad player for this team, he just couldn't stay healthy. It kind of seems strange that everyone decided this year that he was a useless player rather than simply a guy who is made of glass... very strange indeed.

Seems to me that Fords best asset as a runner was his speed.... He wasn't terribly elusive but if he got a hole he had the speed to hit it and run a long way.

How about because when they signed the guy they hadn't lost 2 NI players they were hoping could be at least rotational starters to injury for the entire season. Are you seriously missing the point here? It's not like the canadian kickers have been outperformed here, they were all close so if it's close AND your NI depth has already taken a hit with season ending injuries then why the hell wouldn't you expect them to cut the import kicker?